The achievement of carbon neutrality has become an inescapable feature of the newsmedia and like most long-running news stories, the momentum of the reporting oftenloses the underlying facts as the tale unfolds in everyday exposure. This article seeksto restore some of those facts and questions the assumptions and direction thatpoliticians and the press (the two seem inextricably linked these days so that it is oftendifficult to know who leads who) are taking us in the quest to avert anthropogenic-related climate change. A case for carbon neutrality achieved through carbon trading,rather than politicians posturing on the world stage for nauonal carbon emissionreduction, is made on the basis that whether or not man is critically affecting climate,at least a global mechanism is thereby in place to cope.
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